Novak Djokovic made his debut with a victory in the ATP 250-level Banja Luka tournament, below Barcelona, ​​which is an ATP 500

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The only Brazilian tennis player in the Barcelona Tournament, Rafael Matos made his debut with a doubles win on Wednesday. He and the Spaniard David Vega Hernández beat the Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer and the Salvadoran Marcelo Arevalo-Gonzalez by 2 sets to 0, with a double 6/4, in 1h18min of confrontation. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Novak Djokovic won on his debut at the Banja Luka Tournament.

With the first-round triumph over the current Roland Garros champions, Matos and Hernández have advanced to the quarter-finals, when they will face Argentines Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni, who form a qualifying partnership. If they confirm their favouritism, they will be able to meet in the semi-final one of the favorite pairs for the title, formed by the American Rajeev Ram and the Englishman Joe Salisbury.

“It was a good victory by the way technically, tactically, we managed to do what we had planned with (coach) Franco Ferreiro. Our intensity energy was very good throughout the game. These are the most important points. At the end of the first set, we served in 5/4 we had a 15/40, it was very important to have overturned this match. Important victory because we touched the post in several super tie-breaks, we lost the last ones. We had started the matches well, but we fell in the second. Now we have managed to maintain ourselves,” commented the Brazilian.

In singles, the highlights of the day were Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas and Italy’s Jannik Sinner, two of the main seeds in the competition. Second pre-classified, the Greek tennis player beat, in his debut, the Argentinian Pedro Cachin by 6/4 and 6/2. In the round of 16, Tsitsipas will face Canadian Denis Shapovalov, who defeated Slovak Jozef Kovalik by 6/4 and 6/3 on Wednesday.

Sinner, in turn, beat the experienced Argentinian Diego Schwartzman by 6/2 and 6/4. In search of a place in the quarter-finals, the Italian will now face the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka, responsible for the elimination of the Belgian David Goffin by 6/1 and 7/5.

In the day’s other matches, Russia’s Karen Khachanov, Britain’s Cameron Norrie, Australia’s Alex de Minaur, Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov and Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo qualified.

DJOKOVIC IN BOSNIA

Playing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Novak Djokovic made his debut with a victory in the Banja Luka tournament, ATP 250 level, below Barcelona, ​​which is an ATP 500. to 1, with partials of 6/7(4/ 7), 6/3 and 6/2.

The current world No. 1 went directly to the second round. Thus, it is already assured in the quarter-finals with the victory of this fourth. His opponent remains to be defined. He will emerge from the duel between his compatriot Dusan Lajovic and the French Grégoire Barrère.

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